Growing Up Quotes
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I also know that I have represented for us a certain kind of journalist and for me over the years when an older Black person comes and tells me how proud they are of me and the way I represent us on television, or when a younger person says to me, 'Hey Mr. Gordon, I watched you growing up and my parents made me watch you,'.
Ed Gordon
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Track and field was very big when I was growing up.
Usain Bolt
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When I was growing up, my white friends would call me: 'Hey, Chief!' Even when I go to work now, people call me 'Chief.'
Adam Beach
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Growing up, there were no families on TV that looked like mine.
Laura Harrier
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I made a lot of mistakes growing up, trying so hard to fit in. I got so lost trying to please everybody.
Halima Aden
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Skateboarding was the only thing I was ever good at. Growing up, I was doing that from, like, dusk till dawn.
D. J. Cotrona
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I want to be a positive influence in little girls' eyes. Little girls need to be confident and grow up with a healthy state of mind. It's a tough, tough world out there.
Christy Romano
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Movies I liked growing up were like Francis Ford Coppolla movies and Scorsese movies.
Owen Wilson
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I haven't always been confident. I actually suffered with low self-esteem growing up. Eventually, I got to a point where I was just like, 'OK, this is taking too much energy.' After that, I started accepting myself for who I was, and I was like, whoever is not going to accept it, they weren't really meant to be in my life in that way.
La'Porsha Renae
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I brought in a yogurt master from Turkey. I went to Greece. I was always going back and forth, from New York to Turkey and Greece. The recipe we use has been around hundreds and hundreds of years. Growing up in Turkey, not a day would go by that we wouldn't eat yogurt like this.
Hamdi Ulukaya
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I just feel like growing up in Los Angeles, you learn, 'Well you're never gonna be the prettiest girl in the room, so just don't even try.' I mean, I care about being pretty, but it's not my most valued thing.
Zooey Deschanel
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Growing up in the public spotlight and having insecurities like every other girl, I really know what it's like to feel self-conscious.
Mandy Moore
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Growing up as a kid my father was British and a soccer player. His idol was a guy that passed the ball a lot, Stanley Matthews. Our family thought if you could be unselfish your teammates would always like you.
Adam Oates
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It's properly scary playing a leading man. Growing up, I always wanted to be a character actor.
Rafe Spall
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Growing up, I thought I was going to be Madonna. I wanted to be a pop star. I wanted to dance and sing.
Natalie Maines
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My father played guitar, so I always wanted to play for that reason. But I think the biggest reason was just the '90s in general - growing up listening to the Smashing Pumpkins, Green Day and bands like that, and going to concerts and thinking it was the coolest thing in the world.
Jack Antonoff
Fun.
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My dad believed in scaring us as we were growing up. Scaring the boys who wanted to date us more.
Karin Slaughter
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It has to do - I think - with growing up in an apartment, with my aunt and my cousins right next door to me, with the door open, with neighbors walking in and out, with people yelling at each other all the time.
Larry David
